Disappointment is part of life. How we handle disappointment can be a window into someone’s strength of character. It is a test that, in 2025, many on the Left are failing catastrophically.

I was certainly disappointed in January of 2020, when Joe Biden was sworn in as president. I was disappointed by the opening of the southern border, the idiotic spending, the resultant inflation, the COVID lockdowns, and the disastrous pullout from Afghanistan. Although many of us felt that the election was stolen and that Biden was clearly incompetent, most of us shrugged our shoulders and went back to work. We didn’t act out rage against liberal Biden supporters. We didn’t go around keying old Subaru Outbacks with Biden/Harris bumper stickers. We didn’t physically assault “pro-choice” demonstrators. I didn’t call anybody Hitler, nor constantly post anti-Biden memes. Neither did the vast majority of my conservative acquaintances.

Some on the Left may point out the events on January 6. The more we learn about this, however, the more it seems likely that the capital intrusion was orchestrated in part by the Democrats in Congress and their allies in the FBI. After all, the Left is much better at this sort of thing than we are.

Now, in 2025, the derangement of the Left is simply staggering. Let’s look at Elon Musk.  Remember back three to four years ago, when he would host the announcement of a new product, such as the Cybertruck, to pave the way for a “carbon zero” environment.  Only Steve Jobs, with his Apple product introductions, was more revered by the Left. The liberal elites and celebrities flaunted their expensive Tesla automobiles to virtue signal to the masses. 

Then, Musk bought Twitter and stopped censoring conservative thoughts. In less than 20 minutes, he was an icon no more, and the hate from the Left erupted like a thunderstorm in Kansas.

Then Musk committed the worst sin. He began campaigning for Donald Trump. Then began the Saul Alinsky-type attacks.

Now, the wealthiest businessman in the world is leading a team to improve governmental efficiency and purge incompetence and fraud. By some accounts, he has already saved the government $1 trillion. From the extreme reactions of the Left, you would think he was committing genocide, or worse yet, misgendering someone. 

Now, there would appear to be a worldwide phenomenon where liberals vandalize Tesla automobiles, which ironically, tend to be owned by other liberals. Dealers are harassed with protests. Cars are vandalized, and inventory is burned. Tesla’s stock value has been badly damaged. Any previous admiration for Elon Musk has been purged from the liberal worldview.

Question: Why, in the name of God, do people outside the U.S. care about any of this? How have they been recruited to this liberal crusade? Who is organizing this?

It is understandable why DOGE is a threat to the liberal elite. The actions against USAID are likely disrupting the NGO laundering of taxpayer money back into Democrat coffers. However, this is not likely the concern of your average crazy liberal protesting at a Tesla dealer. For most liberals, it would seem that Elon’s mortal sin is merely working with Trump. That is apparently enough for liberals to turn off NPR, and “storm the barricades” by attacking an automotive brand they previously revered.

For me, it is incredibly frightening the degree of emotional instability and psychotic obsession that is widespread throughout society. To me, it is reminiscent of how the actual Hitler convinced the German populace to tolerate, if not participate in, the persecution of Jews. It is difficult for me to comprehend how we can heal a society that includes such thoughtless, programmable, and violent citizens.

If this campaign to streamline government, balance our trade situation, and reduce our deficit is to succeed, we conservatives may have to become as aggressive as those on the Left.

Henry F Smith Jr. is a pulmonary and sleep physician who practices in Northeastern Pennsylvania. His blog is:  henrysmithscottage.com

It’s the seat of irony: the most popular Democrat in recent memory keeps destroying his party. The Democratic Party base adores Barack Obama, but he’s been the political grim reaper. How can a man who has political skills and the gift of oratory become a cancer to his party? That’s detailed in Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen’s new book, which has become the focal point for news junkies, as it delves deep into the chaos that engulfed the Democratic Party regarding what to do with Joe Biden, his mental state, and the shambolic finish under Kamala Harris. Yet, the work also delves into how the 44th president of the United States inflicted Sherman’s March to the Sea-level destruction on his party as he left public life (via Fox News):

Former President Barack Obama sought to distance himself from the Democratic Party after leaving it in shambles following his departure from the White House, according to a new book.

The book, “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” published by William Morrow and Company, claims that Obama was never a Democratic Party loyalist. Instead, the authors allege, Obama curried favor from a group of “Black professionals” for his campaigns, unlike former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and former President Joe Biden.

Additionally, Obama’s creation of Organizing for Action — a nonprofit that launched in 2012 following Obama’s re-election to advance his legislative priorities — fractured the Democratic Party…

“Though Organizing for Action never realized his vision, it competed with the party for power and money,” the book said. “He left the Democratic Party far weaker than he found it. Or, as one Black party operative put it, ‘Obama destroyed that s—.’”

There needed to be a rebuilding after the Obama presidency. Again, it is ironic that a man who could carry substantial favor with white working-class voters could decimate his party. We discussed years ago how the Obama butcher’s bill for Democrats across the board was steep. The man whom Republicans couldn’t beat also ended up being the undoing of numerous Democratic Party operations nationwide. At the state level, it was a nightmare.

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Under President Obama, Democrats have lost 900+ state legislature seats, 12 governors, 69 House seats, 13 Senate seats. That’s some legacy.

~Nov 4, 2015

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Has it been rebuilt? Is the Democratic Party a viable national entity right now? No. They’re more than ever a coastal and urban-based party that cannot win national elections, and it’s getting worse daily. The party is in its worst shape in 50 years, dragged down by taking illiberal or otherwise bizarre positions on public policy issues. The two families who tried to stop the bleeding were the Clintons and the Bidens, who ensured that a neo-Trotskyite takeover couldn’t happen. It still could, however, given how insane this party has become.

Matt Vespa, Townhall.com

By Larry Elder

A 2018 Axios poll found that 61% of Democrats consider Republicans “racist/bigoted/sexist” versus 31% of Republicans who feel likewise about Democrats. One wonders whether “only” 61% of Democrats still think this way about Republicans.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), for example, appears to represent the preferred approach of many Democrats in “fighting back” and “standing up against” President Donald Trump and “MAGA Republicans.” Yes, President Joe Biden, at an August 2022 fundraiser, said: “What we’re seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the – I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.”

And, when CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked 2024 candidate Vice President Kamala Harris whether she considers Trump “a fascist,” Harris said, “Yes, I do,” later adding, if elected again, Trump would be “a president who admires dictators and is a fascist.”

But Crockett, other elected Democrats and a slew of cable TV hosts, pundits and guests have long abandoned self-restraint by frequently and casually resorting to insults and profanity. Crockett said, “All I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon (Musk) to be taken down.” About Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), she said, “It’s Ted Cruz. I mean, like this dude has to be knocked over the head, like hard, right? Like there is (sic) no niceties with him, like at all. Like you go clean off on him.”

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Then there is Crockett’s June 2024 verbal attack on Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), who, like Crockett, is black. On the popular radio show hosted by Charlamagne tha God, she said: “The fact that (you’re) sitting around talking about life was better under Jim Crow, like, is this because you don’t understand history or literally it’s because you married a white woman? And so you think that that whitewashed you?”

The Donald’s “Jim Crow” comment pertained to the decline in the percentage of black children born to two married parents. Donalds merely pointed out that during Jim Crow, an era of virulent racism, the nuclear black family was more prevalent than now. Does Crockett consider Harris and Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson examples of “whitewashed” blacks because of the race of their spouses?

And just days ago, Crockett mocked Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who, after an accident in his 20s, has been paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair. At a March Human Rights Campaign banquet in Los Angeles, Crockett evoked laughter when she said: “You all know we got Gov. Hot Wheels down there. Come on, now. And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot-a– mess, honey.”

Crockett refuses to apologize. As of now, the Democratic Party leadership has said nothing. Neither former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, former President Joe Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris nor former President Barack Obama issued a statement condemning Crockett’s cruelty.

But during the 2016 presidential campaign when Trump allegedly mocked a disabled reporter, he faced widespread condemnation. But Trump did no such thing. Trump “mocked” what he perceived as reporter Serge Kovaleski’s backpedaling from an article after Trump had referred to it. Kovaleski himself never accused Trump of “mocking him.” Yet NBC News in August 2016 published an article with this headline: “Donald Trump’s Worst Offense? Mocking Disabled Reporter, Poll Finds.” The subheadline read: “Likely voters balked most at Trump mocking a reporter’s disability. What does it say about how Americans think about disability?” The article quoted Tom Harkin, “a prominent voice on disability policy,” who said: “Democrats believe in working together and bringing people with disabilities in to develop policy. Donald Trump? He makes fun of people with disabilities. That’s a throwback to a half a century ago.”

Former President Bill Clinton, addressing the 2016 Democratic National Convention, said Hillary Clinton, Trump’s challenger, “never made fun of people with disabilities. She tried to empower them based on their ability.”

Crockett’s smears are just some short-list, rabid, vicious comments from the Trump-hating left as they scramble to find a message that resonates. What is their message on the economy, inflation, the borders and whether biological men should compete in sports against women? Simple: Trump, and his supporters, are “Nazis.”

Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk-show host. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an “Elderado,” visit http://www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on Twitter @larryelder. Read more of Larry Elder’s articles here.

Every time this writer turns around, hundreds of millions — or even billions of dollars — in government contracts are being cancelled.

This seemingly daily occurrence is nothing short of gloriously beyond words, and “I’m Lovin’ It.”

Let’s hope it continues and takes hold!

With discernible frequency we may read of the judiciary blocking the cancellation of spending championed by our superheroes, President Donald Trump and Tesla Founder and CEO Elon Musk.

As a result of this, it’s hard to ascertain what’s really going on, or what portends for the outcome.

We can trust President Trump’s unwavering, unprecedented sincerity, and his willingness to do absolutely everything in his power to save America from conceivably hyperinflation, recession, and bankruptcy.

Unfortunately. this writer and his fellow Americans trust Republicans in Congress less than anyone. And we need Congress to back up these cuts!

After all, Congress, as per our Constitution, engages in all the spending.

Myself, and my fellow Americans can’t help but feel some in the GOP, on Capitol Hill, are frankly . . . cowardly. This more than applies to “careerist” Republican members of the U.S. House and Senate.

Our future is at stake, and it’s nerve-wracking for the average struggling American.

Let’s call it for what it is: Big Government is a cancer. And that malignancy has metastasized. As with any disease of such severity, strong measures — maybe even painful ones — must be marshalled to rout out what can only be described as a “left-wing infection.”

Make no mistake, we have an epic battle on our hands, the biggest since 1861 or 1941.

Yet President Trump and the MAGA movement continue to unflinchingly fight, at levels truly beautiful, and awe-inspiring.

Specifically, let’s recall this Trump administration success: Canada’s backing down in the conflict over trade.

Trump’s secret?

He understands that nations like Canada need the U.S. exponentially more than the U.S. needs Canada.

Truth be told, the U.S. doesn’t need Canada, or the notable beyond arrogance of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

We don’t need any other country — at all.

This will become especially true once the United States opens the free market on American soil, for production again.

Even with all our taxation, regulation, and delusional psychopathy (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), etc.), the U.S. remains light-years ahead of everyone in every measure that matters.

Self-indulgent millionaires (think Ellen De Generes and Rosie O’Donnell, as two examples) will never define truly patriotic and hardworking of Americans; both celebrities can afford to leave America in a rainbow-preening frenzy of virtue-signaling.

However, for many others on the left, because they aren’t affluent, are reduced to screaming insults on Facebook and vandalizing Elon Musk dealerships.

America wins when it’s free, capitalist, legally gun-carrying, unapologetically assertive, and beautifully independent self is allowed to thrive.

The Trump MAGA movement gets this.

Left methodology is very simple to decipher.

It has been employed by autocrats as long as totalitarianism has existed.

Ponder these liberal assertions and actions:

Decide how you want to control others: socialized medicine, censorship, gun control, and hammering on social hot-buttons like race, sexuality, etc. to divide people from one another.

Accuse Trump of wanting to control others the way you really want to control others. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin did exactly this, repeatedly.

Seize control from Trump (think Lawfare). Then proceed to do all the things you accused our president of doing, which are in actuality . . . things he never did.

Proceed to do all those things yourself.

The left seeks to repeat this cycle now, to give us another Biden regime (only worse).

We have to fight, and win this, as an ideological war.

We can’t underestimate, nor excuse the progressive liberalism, or half-hearted republicanism, because they still insiduously impact the media, schools, embrace the extant Deep State, as well as much of the corporate and entertainment world.

Interestingly, Bill Maher, recently observed, “You have to respect that; the guy did win. It’s more than half the country . . . you cannot like Trump, you can hate him, but you can’t hate everybody who voted for him. . . I don’t hate half the country and I don’t want to hate half the country.”

Maher’s attitude differs from most Democratic voters this writer has encountered.

Most in that camp outright loathe those who voted for Trump. Think: “Basket of Deplorables,” “Garbage!”

“Anti-Trumpers” seemingly vacillate between raw hatred of Trump voters and a childlike refusal to accept that anyone could have cast their vote for him.

Are “anti-Trumpers” “unhinged”?

You decide.

Viewing themselves as enlightened, objective, and well-informed, these poor bewildered CNN and MSNBC viewers are 100% the product of a media which entirely manufactures a false narrative about the characteristics of Trump positions and the many reasons people voted for him three times.

Democratic voters are so apoplectic about Trump, they seem not to have noticed how their own openly socialist and fascist candidates have taken on positions differing little from history’s most notorious dictatorships, reigns resulting in the deaths of millions.

No, our nation’s 47th commander in chief can’t save us from everything.

The battles heretofore alluded to and enumerated will continue.

We all must be prepared to defeat the left decisively.

Many liberals and half-hearted conservatives are anti-social, even bullies.

If those who voted for Trump stand up to them, they will melt away like the “Wicked Witch of the West” in L. Frank Baum’s the “Wizard of Oz.”

And not a moment too soon.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Tariff-stunned markets face another week of potential tariff turmoil, with fallout from President Donald Trump’s sweeping import levies keeping investors on edge after the worst week for U.S. stocks since the onset of the coronavirus crisis five years ago.

Investors will look for signs the stock market may be close to at least a short-term bottom after Trump’s tariffs rocked global asset prices this week. The benchmark S&P 500 lodged its biggest weekly drop since March 2020 and the Nasdaq Composite on Friday ended down more than 20% from its December record high, confirming the tech heavy index is in a bear market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished the week down well over 10% from its December record high, marking a correction for the blue-chip index.

More volatility could be in store ahead of the April 9 deadline Trump set for his reciprocal global tariffs to take effect, after his Wednesday announcement of the levies sent markets into a tailspin, raising fears of a global recession.

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“The playbook on this is very, very unclear for everybody,” said Jeffrey Palma, head of multi-asset solutions at Cohen & Steers. “There is all the questions about tariffs, retaliatory tariffs, where this ends and where it shakes out.”

With the steep slide at the end of the week, the S&P 500 was down over 17% from its February 19 all-time closing high. In the two days following Trump’s tariff announcement, S&P 500 companies lost about $5 trillion in market value, the largest amount ever in a two-day stretch, according to LSEG data.

“The markets could be their own worst enemy,” said Matthew Miskin, co-chief investment strategist at John Hancock Investment Management. “This kind of drawdown … could shake confidence and it could actually lead to weaker economic activity.”

Trump’s tariffs would amount to the highest trade barriers in more than a century, including a 10% baseline tariff on all imports and higher targeted duties on dozens of countries.

The trade battle escalated on Friday when China hit back with additional tariffs of 34% on U.S. goods.

Investors downgraded their economic and earnings forecasts, with JPMorgan analysts raising the risk of a global recession this year to 60% from 40% before.

Some investors held out hope that Trump would negotiate deals in coming days with some countries that would roll back some of the tariffs. Others were dubious that Trump would make any concessions.

Despite Trump’s opportunity to pivot, “it is not lost on us that the window is shrinking and some damage to consumer and business confidence may have been done already regardless of the negotiated ending point to follow,” Citi strategist Scott Chronert said in a note on Friday.

One sign of gloom: The Cboe Volatility Index, an options-based measure of investor anxiety, registered its highest closing level since April 2020.

Bearish sentiment in the American Association of Individual Investors survey reached 61.9%, its highest reading since 2009 during the financial crisis.

With tariffs clouding the outlook, investors are wary of dour financial forecasts as U.S. companies kick off quarterly reports in earnest in the coming week. S&P 500 earnings are expected to have climbed 7.8% in the first quarter from the year ago period, according to LSEG IBES.

Companies set to report next week include major banks JPMorgan and Wells Fargo due on April 11.

“We see a lot of uncertainty in the earnings outlook at the moment,” said RBC Capital Markets strategists in a Friday note, in which they cut their 2025 earnings forecast for the S&P 500.

The market selloff and increasing pessimism could mean the bar is lower for news that would buoy stocks, said Keith Lerner, co-chief investment officer with Truist Advisory Services.

“If you had anything that was even remotely positive right now, you could see a short-term spark because people are braced for the negative outcome,” Lerner said.

Also in the coming week, the monthly consumer price index report on Thursday could help set a baseline for U.S. inflation ahead of the impact from tariffs, which are widely expected to add to pricing pressures.

Investors have been factoring in more Federal Reserve interest rate cuts this year in the wake of the tariff announcement, with Fed fund futures accounting for 100 basis points of easing this year, according to LSEG data.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said on Friday that the tariffs are “larger than expected” and the economic fallout, including higher inflation and slower growth, likely will be as well.

Palma, of Cohen & Steers, said it was critical for markets to show some stability in the coming days.

“We’ve had two really, really big days in terms of sharp market moves,” Palma said. “What we really don’t want to see is that starts to create some vicious cycle that itself destabilizes the financial system.”

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Anyone who cares about election integrity should get behind the legislation. Those who don’t? Well, they have their reasons.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to secure elections, including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to vote — mirroring a bill set to be voted on in the House. While noncitizen voting is already illegal, the current law is largely toothless. Trump’s order, along with the House legislation, would simply add some teeth.

But Democrats are terrified that Republicans are finally taking the needed steps to enforce the law and protect our elections from violations that have been long ignored.

“Trump and Congressional Republicans are escalating their assault on American democracy through the noxious SAVE Act,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement. “Congressional Republicans are pushing a proposal that would coerce states into instituting policies that would effectively prevent millions of American citizens from voting …”

But how does Schumer know these “millions” of people are American citizens? Is he just taking their word for it?

The truth is, Schumer doesn’t have proof — and neither does anyone else. Taking someone’s word for their citizenship status isn’t confirmation, and our elections should never hinge on the honor system when so much is at stake. That’s why Republicans introduced the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act.

The act would amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act to require prospective voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship in order to register. While noncitizen voting is already illegal, the only thing standing between a noncitizen and secure elections is a small square box on the federal registration form that requires applicants attest to their citizenship status under penalty of perjury.

It’s a system ripe for fraud.

Take, for example, that a Chinese college student cast an illegal vote this past election cycle despite being a noncitizen. His vote was ultimately counted because ballots are secret and once a vote is cast and run through a tabulator, it is impossible to identify who cast the ballot. In Iowa, Jorge Oscar Sanchez-Vasquez was charged for “registering to vote and illegally voting on the same day, July 16, 2024, in a special election of the Marshalltown City Council,” according to the state’s attorney general. An October Georgia audit found 20 noncitizens registered to vote, and nearly half of them reportedly previously voted in an election.

Oregon’s secretary of state similarly found nine noncitizens who had voted in past elections, as well as “more than 300 noncitizens [who] were erroneously registered to vote,” as The Federalist’s Logan Washburn explained. Meanwhile, six noncitizens were indicted in Ohio for allegedly voting in past elections.

The examples are endless — and dangerous. When elections are decided on razor-thin margins (Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks won her 2020 election by just six votes) every vote matters — but not every vote should count. Votes cast by ineligible voters, like noncitizens, should not count. In fact, they shouldn’t even be cast in the first place. One way to prevent that from happening is by requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote — that way noncitizens are unable to even get on the voter rolls.

But Schumer has vowed to “make sure” the SAVE Act is blocked by Senate Democrats. His comments were echoed by Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., who said his party would “overwhelmingly” oppose the legislation.

Without requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, there’s no real way of knowing whether noncitizens are making it on voter rolls or casting a ballot. And, as reported by The Federalist’s Breccan Thies, data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows “the federal government decided to only go after 35 criminal cases of aliens voting in American elections from 2001-2021…”

Manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at The Heritage Foundation Hans von Spakovsky told The Federalist that he spent four years at the DOJ and that the department is “filled with left-wing ideologues, and they just had no interest — they have no interest in going after aliens to prosecute them.”

The DOJ won’t do its job, which makes the SAVE Act and Trump’s order even more necessary.

Anyone who cares about election integrity should get behind the legislation. Those who don’t? Well, they have their reasons.

Brianna Lyman, The Federalist

Solution to the leftist judge problem: IGNORE THEM. If we don’t ignore them, America will go down. They are totalitarians.

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“I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on.”
Ayn Rand, Anthem

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The message of the second Trump administration is as follows:

“If you wish to take over America with your own horrific hybrid of 21st Century Communism, socialism, fascism and psychopathy, you will have to go Old School: Like Lenin, Hitler, Castro and Mao. You will have to be real life totalitarians, not the snowflake version. Brainwashing students with government funds and dominating the media will not be enough. Installing a demented goon and a cackling whore as puppet and copuppet will not fly, not in the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

Only 3 months into Trump 2.0, the message could not be more clear; “Bring it on, leftists. We are more than ready for you.”

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A meme asks if Soros and son should be investigated by DOGE.

Seriously? You have to ask? They are both enemy combatants, not just against the United States but against civilization itself. They should be arrested, tried, convicted and executed–yesterday.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Looking at Europe today, we can visualize what we will face in the next 2-5 years. Look no further than the immigrant penetration of major European cities like London, with 37% of its total population being recent immigrants, a majority in some area communities. 18% of the German population are recent immigrants. Madrid and Rome, each with approximately 1.6 million immigrants. Amsterdam doesn’t even want to know how many immigrants they host, though similar to other major European cities, city leaders state.

In America, Southern California already has a majority or near majority immigrant population. Jersey City stands out, with 41.2% of its population made up of recent immigrants, and New York’s 14th Congressional District, led by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has close to a majority of immigrants.

These numbers are expected to grow yearly regardless of Trump’s desire to stop the invasion.

A curious thing has happened in lockstep with Western nations admitting ever more people who do not aspire to be culturally absorbed. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of young people, have become the de facto advocates for these immigrants, with no thought to their ability to contribute to society or their desire to conduct themselves civilly and productively.

Couple this with Democrat’s hard left shift that sees no sign of abating, and what you can readily see is the three-legged stool composed of anti-American rhetoric, mass immigration of uneducated individuals, and strident internationalism. We can visualize a day when Europe, America, and the remaining capitalist countries will end if effective countermeasures are not employed.

Few comprehend how progressives have rapidly and effectively overcome the West’s history of pluralism, law and order, and individual rights, all while attacking America’s Constitution, diminishing its promise, infiltrating our court system, and sullying the reputation of our economic system quickly and effectively.

One example out of England, however, is a microcosm into how young people’s minds are brainwashed by false narratives reinforced through coordinated messaging online, much of it funded by leftist transnational entities.

According to the sympathetic Slate report, British police arrested 21-year-old Zoe Rogers for causing millions of dollars of property damage at a factory in Bristol that is not an arms manufacturer but is managed by an Israeli arms manufacturer.  

Young Zoe, says her mother, “has always had a ‘massive social justice streak,’” which took the form of going online and finding a radical anti-Israel protest organization:

Then Zoe found Palestine Action, a U.K.-based pro-Palestinian protest network, and began talking about direct action. “Zoe said, ‘Protesting is like asking the government to dig a well. Direct action is just digging the well, and daring the authorities to stop you,’ ” Clare recalled. “At that time, she clearly decided that she was not afraid to go to prison.” In August 2024, Zoe, alongside a group from Palestine Action, hired a repurposed prison van and rammed through the gates to break into a factory in Filton, Bristol, run by Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms manufacturer. The “Filton 18,” as they have become known, used sledgehammers and axes to cause over $1 million in damage. Seven of the protesters, including Zoe, were arrested on site. Since then, she has been in prison—and will be for the foreseeable future.

The war on the Elbit factory wasn’t Palestine Action’s only initiative. “One recent action saw a man scale Big Ben and fly a Palestinian flag for 16 hours. ‘Free the Filton 18,’ the protester screamed.”

Soros, Rockefeller, and Pritzker fund Palestine Action. Additionally, all three contributed to Susan Crawford’s recent win in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. A hodgepodge of other Democratic organizations, including The Tides Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Soros-controlled Open Society Foundation, to name but a few, have been closely tied to other initiatives that take aim at the West.

Closely observing many protest groups here and in the U.K. reveals coordination at multiple financial and operational levels. Pick your protest, Palestine, climate change, anti-forestry, immigration, DOGE, healthcare, gender, and more, and you will find the same entities and people. Why?

Together, it would not be hard to claim that these organizations are working for the destruction of Western civilization. Their chosen vehicle is to turn the Zoes of the world into guided missiles that we are to pity as they destroy property, dreams, lives, and, at a fundamental level, the underpinnings that we as a society rely on.

We need you, those who stand to lose the most, to turn away from concentration on the oftentimes unimportant pursuits that dominate our lives and instead realize that we are all in a war that will determine our future freedom. All must pay due attention.

Allan Feifer

Author, Businessman, Thinker, and Strategist. Read more about Allan, his background, and his ideas to create a better tomorrow at www.1plus1equals2.com.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Now that we’ve seen, in the first eight weeks of the Trump administration, a 96% reduction in illegal entries across the southern border—and this was done, remember, without the supposed need for comprehensive “immigration reform”—it’s logical to ask what the last four years were about.

Why did we have a completely open border? Why did 12 million people come into the United States from all over the world under illegal auspices? What was the reason? Why would people do that?

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And remember, right now, the United States has somewhere between 50 and 60 million residents that were not born in the United States. Twenty-seven percent of the population of California is foreign-born, of all statuses—citizen, legal, illegal.

That’s an enormous challenge in assimilation, acculturation, integration. And we’re not doing that, of course. But why would we do that? Why would we have 16%, now, of the population of the United States as foreign-born? What was the rationale behind that, especially in the context of illegal entries?

Looking back, what were the Democrats, what was then-President Joe Biden, what were the handlers of Biden thinking? I suppose they thought that maybe people who were coming in without English, without high school diplomas—for the most part—without capital, and without skills would be dependent on federal largess.

I know you’re gonna say people who are not here legally cannot get Medicaid. Well, they can get Medicaid in an emergency. In California, anybody can get Medicaid, which we here call Medi-Cal.

So many people came in illegally and got on Medi-Cal that the system is broke. It’s $6.7 billion in the hole. Fifty percent of the population, of all births, are on Medi-Cal. And 40% of the California resident population are on Medi-Cal.

So, was the idea to get people dependent on the government? And then that would make government grow and more redistribution and more higher taxes. A way of, what? Having equity? Taking from the small, supposed, greedy elite and making them pay higher taxes to fund this social welfare?

Or was it utopianism, globalism, 21st century-ism, end of the worldism? In which you think that borders are a 19th-century construct. We’re all people of the same planet, as we see in Europe. So, let’s just get rid of borders. Let’s make it everything from Yucatan to the Arctic Circle, we can just go anywhere we want in this utopian dream. There’s no difference.

Why is somebody who was born in Chiapas or Oaxaca or Michoacan to dire poverty and cartels and corruption, why doesn’t he get the chance of somebody who’s born in Malibu? Well, as social architects, maybe the Left thought he should have the chance. So, we’ll just destroy the border.

Or a third reason why—was it more sinister? Did they think that after 2020, when the majority of states changed the balloting laws to such a degree that earlier mail-in and early voting had only constituted 30% of those who voted, 70% voted on Election Day—now 70% of all American voters do not vote on Election Day. They don’t go before somebody and show a driver’s license. Did they think, under this system, they could bring in 12 million people and, in some cases, they could vote?

Now, that’s a very controversial topic. The Left says that they never do vote. I’m not suggesting that they do in numbers, although, I will suggest that although it’s illegal at the state level, in most states, it’s absolutely illegal at the federal level.

Sixteen local jurisdictions allow illegal aliens to vote in city council, school board elections, local referendums. It’s a trend that the Left is trying to cultivate and mine. So, do they think that, eventually, the more people you bring in—so you have 50 or 60 million people who were not born in the United States—they’re going to be a constituency? And equity being what it is and parity being—they deserve to vote.

Was that the long-term goal? Or was it a fourth reason, just simple nihilism, chaos? People were angry at the Trump years. Or they were angry at traditional America. They think it’s racist and sexist. It doesn’t provide diversity or equity and inclusion. So, what we’re going to do is just flood the zone. Twelve million people. And we’ll see how you like it. We’re gonna put them in hotels in New York. We’re gonna send them to the inner city. And we’re not gonna send them to Malibu or Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket. But we’re just gonna flood the zone and just make so much chaos that you’ll have to deal with it, sort of like California. Deal with it.

I don’t have the answer. I don’t know what was behind it. But I do know that never in the history of the United States, within four years, did the government, by intent, destroy the border, welcome in 12 million people, during the first year of a COVID-19 lockdown, where all of us had to be very careful, wear masks, and have proof of vaccination, with no audit at all of the people who were not here.

It’s inexplicable. And it’s so inexplicable that I’m gonna end today with I don’t have any answers other than providing the possible choices and alternatives I outlined.

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